Horse-collar fastener



V(No Model.)

' S.E.BURKE. HORSE COLLAR PASTBNBR.

Patented Peb. 1, 1898.

l'ej' @Afforg PATENT reina@ STEPHEN BURKE,

OF EDON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO IV. A.

KANTZ, OF BRISTOL, INDIANA.

HORSE-COLLAR FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 598,075, dated February 1, 1898. Application led December Sl, 1896. Serial No. 617,602l (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, STEPHEN E. BURKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Eden, in the-county of lvilliams and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Horse-Collar Fastener, of which the following is a specilication.

The invention relates to improvements in horse-collar fasteners.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of horse-collar fasteners and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efiicient device adapted to be readily applied to a horse-collar and capable of enabling the same to be easily fastened and unfastened in order that a horse-collar may be quickly put on and removed from a horse.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of a horse-collar fastener constructed in accordance with this invention, the sections or plates being locked. Fig. 2 isa similar view, the sections or plates being unlocked and separate. Fig. 3 isan enlarged detail sectional View of the inner portions of the plates or sections, the parts being locked. Fig. e is a detail perspective view of one of the sections,showing the tongues for seecu rin g it to a horse-collar. l

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the gures of the drawings.

wardly-entendis g hook-shaped tongues 3 are disposed in pairs, and the outer ones, which are larger than the inner ones, terminate in spursm'hich are embedded in the horse-collar. The front and back rolls of a horse-collar are sufficiently embraced by the hook shaped tongues to retain the plates or sections thereon Without necessitating the employment of rivets or similar fastening devices, and the spurs of the larger tongues by being embedded in the rolls of a horse-collar prevent the plates or sections from slipping longitudinally olf the same. T he variation in the size of the tongues permits them to conform to the coniiguration of the rolls, and if the spurs Were not provided they might slip oit a collar. By this construction the plates or sections are securely fastened to a horse-collar, and the collar-fastener may be readily applied to any horse-collar ot the ordinary construction.

The plate or section 1 is provided at its iuner end with a transverse flange fl, extending outward and adaptedto be received Within a transverse keeper 5 of the plate or section 2 and to be engaged by a locking-lever 6, mounted on thelatter. Thekeeper, Which is formed integral with the plate or section, is substantially V-shaped in cross-section and is provided at the innerer bottom edges of its sides with corresponding openings 7, which register With an opening 8 of the iiange 4. The locking-lever, which is pivoted at one end to the plate or section '2, adjacent to the keeper 5, is provided between its ends with a projection or lug 9, which is adapted to extend through the registering openings of the transverse ila-nge and the keeper and lock the plates or sections together. One end of the lever is bent to form a handle or linger-piece to enable the lever to be readily operated to lock or release the plates or sections.

The outer edges of the tlange and the keeper are provided With corresponding centrally-arranged recesses, which are adapted to receive a llame-strap.

It will be seen that the collar-fastener is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, tha't it is positive and reliable in operation, and that it is capable of enabling a horse-collar to be readily fastened and unfastened to permit it to be quickly put on or removed from a horse.

A horse-collar fastener com prising the section l provided at its inner end With an upturned flange having an opening at its base, the section 2 provided at its inner end with IOO an upwardly-extending transverse keeper keeper, whereby the two sections are looked composed of two sides and open at its bottogether, substantiallyY es described. tom, said keeper fitting over and embracing In testimony that I oiaim the foregoing as the npturned flange of the section 1 andpromy own I have hereto affixed my signature in 5 vided at its base with an opening registering the presence of two witnesses.

with the seid rst-named opening, and zt loeking-lever pivotaily mounted on one of the STEPHEN E' BURKE' sections et one end and provided between its Witnesses: ends with zt lug arranged to project through H. F. ALWooD,

1o the registering openings of the flange and the M. E. TOWNSEND. 

